George

Thanks for the post and explanation concerning missing posts.

A question you may be consider to be off topic in which case I'll begin a new thread, but -

How reliable would your "Is a Windows ..." code be in determining whether or not a file, not the application, is in use.

The only "safe" part of a filename would be JUSTSTEM(JUSTFNAME(lcFileName)), but would probably be enough to activate a MESSAGEBOX([It appears that file xyz may be in use etc]).

Or what better ideas do you have?

Dennis